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Netflix’s “One Piece” Sails Into the Grand Line with a Swashbuckling Season 2
The live-action anime adaptation is always a dicey proposition, no less so when it’s Netflix doing the adapting. Their version of “Cowboy Bebop” was a dour, muggy reshuffling of the series’ events with a mismatched cast and no sense of direction; “Avatar: The Last Airbender” fared even worse, unable to survive Netflix’s punishing runtimes, pacing…
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Short Films in Focus: “Endless Sea” with Sam Shainberg
Sam Shainberg’s “Endless Sea” opens on a dreary metropolitan street where it looks like freezing rain has been pouring all morning. Carol (Brenda Cullerton) has a collection of recyclables she deposits for a little extra pocket change. She then enters a pharmacy to pick up her prescription for heart meds and gets dreadful news that…
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Why Ryan Coogler Should Win Best Director for “Sinners”
The problematic history of the Oscars recognizing—or failing to recognize—Black people in the acting categories is a well-trod subject. We all heard about #OscarsSoWhite in 2015 and 2016, a two-year span in which all 40 acting nominees were white. We know the first Black winners in the major categories—Hattie McDaniel, Sidney Poitier, Louis Gossett Jr.,…
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Bumblebee Queens Can Breathe Underwater
A new study offers clues as to how the insects survive flooding as they emerge from a hibernation-like phase every winter.
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In Ancient Peru, a Parrot Trade That Crossed the Andes
Scientists studied centuries-old bird feathers from an ancient tomb on the coast, and then traced the origins back to the Amazon.
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Noma Loses American Express and Blackbird Sponsors For Los Angeles Dinners
Two companies have withdrawn from a series of dinners in Los Angeles after The New York Times reported allegations that René Redzepi attacked workers.
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Restaurant Review: Gymkhana in Las Vegas
Gymkhana, one of the most acclaimed restaurants in England, lands on the Strip.
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A.I. Incites a New Wave of Grieving Parents Fighting for Online Safety
Blaming chatbots, they are joining an earlier push for better protections by parents who say social media contributed to their children’s deaths.
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Meta Acquires Moltbook, the Social Network Just for A.I. Bots
Matt Schlicht, the site’s creator, helped kick off Silicon Valley’s obsession with artificial intelligence agents. Two months later, he is joining the Meta Superintelligence Lab.
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YouTube Adds Tool to Help Public Figures Report Fake Videos
Social media companies are under pressure to crack down on so-called deepfake videos that use deceptive images of real people.